Private capital associations join forces to advance ESG reporting harmonisation
New and updated templates aim to reduce duplication and improve the consistency and usefulness of ESG information across private capital.
Invest Europe, France Invest and UK Private Capital today announced the launch of new and updated ESG reporting templates, reinforcing their shared commitment to more consistent and comparable ESG reporting across the private equity and venture capital ecosystem.
The launch includes the 2026 editions of the Invest Europe and France Invest ESG Reporting Templates, alongside the new UK VC ESG Reporting Template. Together these initiatives aim to bring ESG reporting requests into closer alignment, reduce unnecessary duplication and improve the availability of consistent, comparable and decision-useful information for limited partners (LPs), general partners (GPs) and portfolio companies.
Developed in partnership with Reframe Venture, the updated Invest Europe template – covering metrics at portfolio company, GP and fund level – continues to support ESG reporting across the broader European private capital market. The 2026 edition focuses on improving proportionality, alignment, usability and clarity, while taking into account recent market developments and maintaining continuity with previous editions to support historical data comparability.
This year, the update of the France Invest ESG templates has focused on stability and on further strengthening the cooperation between Invest Europe and France Invest. By ensuring continuity with the previous version and making the questionnaires available earlier in the year, we are giving our members more time to prepare their ESG reporting campaigns, while supporting greater consistency in our ESG Benchmark.
Alongside the European templates, UK Private Capital, Reframe Venture and the British Business Bank have launched a standardised ESG reporting template for UK venture capital. Developed in consultation with institutional asset owners, asset managers and VC fund managers, it aligns reporting requests around a common set of metrics.
By promoting a more harmonised approach to ESG data collection and reporting, the templates aim to make reporting more useful and proportionate, allowing LPs, GPs and portfolio companies to direct more time and resources towards informed decision-making and long-term value creation.
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About Invest Europe
Invest Europe is the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors. We have 626 members, split roughly equally between private equity, venture capital and limited partners – with 104 associate members representing advisers to our ecosystem. Those members are based in 57 countries, including 42 in Europe, and manage 60% of the European private equity and venture capital industry’s €1.37 trillion of assets under management. Businesses with private capital investment employ 11.4 million people across Europe, 5% of the region’s workforce.
For more information visit www.investeurope.eu
About UK Private Capital
UK Private Capital is the industry body and public policy advocate for the private equity (PE), venture capital (VC) and private credit ecosystem in the UK. With a membership of 600 firms, we represent UK-based private capital firms, as well as their professional advisers and a large base of UK and global investors. The private equity, venture capital and private credit industry has a vital role to play in driving national and regional growth. Currently over 13,000 companies, employing more than 2.5 million people, are backed by private capital investment in the UK.
About France Invest
France Invest brings together almost all private equity teams active in France and, as such, counts more than 460 management companies and more than 200 advisory firms among its members. It is one of the two associations recognised by the AMF whose membership is one of the conditions for management companies to obtain authorisation. It is the only professional association in France specialised in the private equity profession. Promoting the standing and role of private equity, actively contributing to its development by uniting the entire profession, and establishing best practices, methods and tools for the professional and responsible exercise of the shareholder role have been among France Invest's priorities for 40 years.
